7 sentences with 'revolts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word revolts and other words derived from it.
• « Amid the political chaos at the top, a series of revolts briefly shook the empire, but Darius I quickly crushed the uprisings and reasserted Persian rule. »
• « Some members of the League rose up in armed revolt, but the Athenians were able to crush the revolts with little difficulty. »
• « Richelieu suppressed several revolts against royal power led by nobles, and created a system of royal officials called Intendants, royal governors who were men who were not normally nobles, but who came from the merchant classes. »
• « There were instances of rural revolts, of peasants hiring lawyers and taking their lords to the royal courts, and other forms of resistance. »
• « In 1821, a Greek prince named Alexander Ypsilantis organised a revolt centred on the demand for a Greek state. A series of revolts ensued in Greece and on several Aegean islands. »
• « Slave revolts occurred in two camps in August and October 1943, which explains why anyone survived these camps, but by then the camps had already succeeded: almost the entire Polish Jewish population was dead, starving in the ghettos or gassed in the camps. Afterwards, the SS destroyed the remains of the camps to hide the evidence of what had happened there. »
• « Originally, the city was called Derry, which is Gaelic for "oak place". In 1613, after suppressing one of the usual Irish revolts, Derry was transferred to British London, which established a Protestant colony there and named it Londonderry. »